affects midori affects debian done On mar., 2011-09-27 at 22:55 +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > Package: midori > Version: 0.4.0-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi! > > The order defined by the user for his/her bookmarks and bookmark folders > should be stored along with the bookmark themselves and preserved. > The reason is that the user-defined order is often significant and should > not be messed with. > > Example: suppose I use the "New Folder" button in the sidepanel to > create four bookmark folders named "first", "second", "third", and "fourth". > Suppose that I create these folders in the above-described order. > The sidepanel shows > > first > second > third > fourth
Same here > > as it should, but the Bookmarks menu shows > > first > fourth > second > third Here it shows the correct order. > > which seems to be a lexicographical order (has the feature requested > in bug #535589 been implemented, after all?). Weird, I don't think so. > However, if I change my mind and want to alter the order of these > four folders, I cannot get what I would like to: if I drag "first" > to the bottom (within the sidepanel), I get the following order > in the sidepanel > > third > second > fourth > first > > while I expected to see > > second > third > fourth > first Yep, it looks like reordering folders doesn't work completely fine. It seems that there might be bad interactions between folders and bookmarks. > > The bookmarks menu still shows > > first > fourth > second > third Here it still shows the original order too. > > > What I would like to see, as I anticipated above, is Midori preserving > the user-defined order for bookmarks. > More in detail: > > * bookmarks and bookmark folders should be shown in the user-defined > order, both in the sidepanel and in the Bookmarks menu > > * the user should be able to modify the order by simply dragging > elements (bookmarks or bookmark folders) up and down in the sidepanel, > and by cutting, copying, and pasting them > > * there should be a "Sort" menu entry (in the menu that appears when > you right-click on a folder in the sidepanel): this entry should > lexicographically sort all the elements in the folder (so that > the submitter of bug #535589 could be happy, too), but should > not prevent future order modifications by the user > > * the concept of "bookmark separators" should be implemented (please > see how this concept is used in the Galeon web browser) > > I hope this makes sense and may be easily implemented. > Please forward this feature request upstream, if appropriate. That definitely looks upstream so I'm trying to submit it directly to launchpad. Hope it'll work and won't look to weird from their. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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